Mabel Lucie Attwell, Shelley Pottery, Earthenware
Teapot, c1930
Photographs all hand held low
light no flash
This teapot is fantastic. The somewhat grumpy characterisation of the Boo
Boo at the door is superb. I wish that
it was me that was disturbing the elf like creature to make a pot, or two of
tea with a sandwich, a scone and a cake served from a three tiered stand.
From 1926 Mabel Lucie Attwell was
designing children’s tablewares. Her elfin
figures in brightly coloured romper suits were known as, “Boo Boos.” This teapot is fashioned in the broad shape
of a mushroom. Her work was so popular
that the illustration continued in calendar form and in pottery long after her
death.
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